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Bill: End to government welfare to radio Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Christian People's Party (IA)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2425
Description[?]:
| it is time to pull the plug on radio stations that can't exist without government aid (subsidizing business & indrustry is like giving a blood transfusion to a person without a head) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: All radio stations are private.
Proposed: All radio stations are private.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:04:38, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Christian People's Party (IA) | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | We are just keeping radio artificially alive with subsidies by privatizing radio we build a competitive market that will charter to what people need and want instead of what the goverment things they need and want and if they want educational and informational radio they will be willing to pay for it and radio will give it to them because that is where the money is |
| Date | 11:27:38, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Personally I enjoy having the choice to listen to radio stations without commercial advertising. I yield the floor. |
| Date | 11:39:16, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Christian People's Party (IA) | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | Mabey but it is better to have a choice than to be forcefead what the government wants you to hear "The one who pays the piper calls the tune" |
| Date | 11:45:26, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Quite right. The current legislation gives us all a choice... * Thumbs through the current bill and quotes: 'other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed'. I yield the floor. |
| Date | 11:51:47, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Christian People's Party (IA) | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | Yes but waste is waste and if people listen most to non-subsidised radio we are just wasting money paying for radio no one is lisning to |
| Date | 11:55:31, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, I listen to it. In fact I listen to nothing else! I yield the floor. |
| Date | 12:20:06, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Christian People's Party (IA) | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | So you are the one!!! |
| Date | 18:20:54, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Teleurstelling Party | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker. I assure you I listen in the privacy of my own home and do not bother the Rt Hon Representative from the BCD while enjoys our Imperial Radio. I yield the floor. |
| Date | 23:50:35, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Secular Party | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, However, the Honorable Representative from the BCD bothers us by taking up our tax dollars for the Imperial Radio. I yield the floor. |
| Date | 23:42:59, July 08, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, So now I must buy CDs in order to listen to music without the interruptions of commercial advertising, and I have no way of listening to news, sport and current affairs without such interruptions. I deplore my quality of life being reduced in this manner! I yield the floor. |
| Date | 01:20:39, July 09, 2007 CET | From | Secular Party | To | Debating the End to government welfare to radio Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Let us play you a song on the world's smallest violins. No commercial interruptions on that. I yield the floor. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 54 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 46 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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